Their names have been broadcast in bright daylight. Undercover officers, some who pose as bad guys that should not be allowed to have a pistol permit, outed by their own local newspaper.

Orangetown Police Chief Kevin Nulty joined a growing chorus in blasting The Journal News. I think The Journal-News went overboard on this, he said, noting that in his opinion the listing of names and addresses of gun permit holders jeopardizes their health and safety, and clearly jeopardizes the safety of all local undercover officers regardless of the department for which they work.

Joining Nulty and the County of Rockland Tuesday evening, the Orangetown Town Board publicly criticized the gun map of the Rockland County Journal-News-snip-

The strongly worded resolution, which was approved on a 4-0 vote with one abstention, was introduced by Republican Councilman Paul Valentine of Blauvelt and seconded by fellow GOP member Denis Troy of Pearl River. It was quickly supported by fellow Republicans Thomas Diviny and Thomas Morr.

Resolved that the Orangetown Town Board condemns The Journal-News for publishing the names and addresses of legal gun permit owners in Rockland County, the motion drafted by Morr read. This reporting was unnecessary and potentially dangerous, it concluded. snip- Additionally, Nulty said the northern suburbs of Rockland and Westchester Counties are home to many federal undercover officers, whose identities are also supposed to be confidential, for their own safety and to safeguard their investigations. They include agents working for the FBI, the CIA, the Secret Service and all four branches of the military. As law-abiding citizens, if they carry guns, which most do, the chief said they apply for and receive local carry permits. Until The Journal-News published this information, however, their identities had always been kept secret.

One abstention one this resolution, Democratic Supervisor Andrew Stewart, who "wanted more time to study the issue, and the wording of the actual resolution." The fallout continues, especially as the law of unintended consequences becomes apparent, the potential impact on national security and terrorism. Calling the Urinal-Spews staff foolish and naïve would be too kind.

Read article twice.
My understanding , under cover cops posing as “bad guys” would only have guns illegally .
Flagging them as having permits , shows their not who they say they are.
First hunch is they’re cops by the bad guys.

Although the police automatically "have permits" for their duty weapons, I believe most (if not all) cops also have personally owned firearms that they keep at home for the defense of their families and themselves in "off-duty" hours. Of course, the requirement for "permits" varies widely by geography.

Y’know, I had never even considered the aspect of undercover police officers being “outed” by that stupid “gun map”

I’m wondering now just how many undercover investigations have been potentially compromised by the arrogance of those idiots at the Journal News. On top of all the private citizens who already have also been put at risk, of course.

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posted on 01/13/2013 8:41:26 AM PST
by DemforBush
(You might very well think that. I could not *possibly* comment.)

The liberal mind thinks gun owners are at risk by printing names and addresses.. It never occurred to them that single females WITHOUT guns were put at greatest risk.. What fools the media are for doing as the 0bama regime told them to do. You can bet Holder gave the order. A-hole EH!

The gay lobby was successful in having medical records so extremely private that anyone in the healthcare industry releasing them, however inadvertently, warrants fines that basically put them out of business. Why can’t the gun lobby assure that licensing and ownership are NOT matters of public record. That would be “closing the barn door” for now, but would be helpful to future owners/licensees.

One of the fringe benefits of gun ownership is that everyone, not just gun owners, enjoys an umbrella of protection by keeping the identity of the actual gun owners hidden. Criminals are deterred by not knowing which home owner is armed to the teeth and which has little more than a dull butter knife for protection. By outing the gun owners, the newspaper has removed an effective crime prevention tool.

Under New York law, every county, city, town, and village is required at their annual reorganization meeting to designate a newspaper for the publication of legal notices. This is a big source of revenue for the Gannett Rags. The municipalities should protest with their wallets and designate another newspaper.

I don’t believe that’s right. Check out HIPAA. A doctor/hospital can hardly admit they are treating a patient or gave him/her a flu shot. And, if any healthcare provider provides confidential information without the patient’s signed authorization, s/he or it can be sued and fined big time.

But it is true that if you look at standard medical disclosure forms, HIV requires special extra consent. It used to be that communicable diseases received special treatment in the other direction in order to prevent disease spread.

Also, even foster parents are not entitled to know the HIV status of the child they are caring for (NY law). But they are entitled to other health info.

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posted on 01/14/2013 2:19:14 PM PST
by dervish
(either the vote was corrupt or the electorate is)

My sister worked in foster care and the stories she told me made my hair stand up.

I am always amazed that AIDS/HIV which is almost wholly a preventable illness is never targeted by the same people who want to limit our salt, sugar, fat etc because of how much it costs the healthcare system.

AIDS/HIV costs est $350,000 lifetime per person. That is a lot of money!

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posted on 01/14/2013 2:41:27 PM PST
by dervish
(either the vote was corrupt or the electorate is)

As I’m sure you know, the reason the folk who care about how much soft drinks or salt we consume, or how many cigarettes we smoke look the other way when it comes to highly contagious/deadly HIV/AIDS, is that its largest constituency group is overall very wealthy and politically powerful with all kinds of time on their hands to lobby, and knows no bottom to the depths they will plumb to destroy any who oppose them.

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